North America

ISBN: 9780861591725
Published by : British Museum Company Ltd.
Series: British Museum Research Publication
Volume: 172
John White's watercolours of the flora, fauna and North Carolina Algonquians he encountered on the expedition sent by Walter Raleigh in 1585 are some of the greatest treasures of the British Museum; engraved by Theodor de Bry in 1590 to illustr... .... Learn More

ISBN: 9781598741520
Published by : Left Coast Press
An explicitly archaeological study of the rock art of the High Plains region of southeastern Colorado. Loendorf traces the development of rock art in the area from prehistoric times into the historic period, setting the art firmly in its contex... .... Learn More

ISBN: 9781598742961
Published by : Left Coast Press
An accessible synthesis of the prehistoric archaeology of the Great Basin up to the coming of the first Europeans. Simms offers observations on the history of the landscape and environment then traces the arrival of the first humans in the area... .... Learn More

ISBN: 9789077922453
Published by : Barkhuis
Series: Circumpolar Studies
Volume: 5
In 1999, Nunavut Territory was created in the Canadian Arctic. The area is about 50 times as large as the Netherlands, and is inhabited by a population of 30,000. 85% of the population is Inuit, the indigenous people in this area. The central ques... .... Learn More

ISBN: 9781905933013
Published by : John Hess
When the American Civil War began in 1861 it became of prime importance for the United Sates to seal off the Southern ports. The Southern Confederacy had few resources to prevent this happening, but tried very hard to make up the difference. Th... .... Learn More

ISBN: 9780975273869
Published by : Percheron Press/Eliot Werner Publications
Series: Foundations of Archaeology
An archaeological study of the growth of Manhattan during the colonial period, this book documents the emergence of Manhattan as the center of class-structured capitalist commercialism in the new nation-state. A new introduction by the author u... .... Learn More

ISBN: 9780874176964
Published by : University of Nevada Press
This book is a collection of essays by 12 scholars that explores the American West's Great Basin rock art from an archaeological perspective. It aims to show how archaeology has helped us understand the meaning and purpose of rock art in the d... .... Learn More

ISBN: 9780759108295
Published by : AltaMira Press
In recent decades anthropology, especially ethnography, has supplied the prevailing models of how human beings have constructed, and been constructed by, their social arrangements. In turn, archaeologists have all too often relied on these mode... .... Learn More

ISBN: 9780759108721
Published by : AltaMira Press
This book represents the first large scale assessment of prehistoric archaeology in California since 1984, with advances in techniques and methodology having virtually transformed the subject in the interim. Forty scholars contribute to the vo... .... Learn More